MrBlah
08-27-2011, 09:26 AM
Picked up this no contract virgin moblie phone this week (sprint network), the phone is 300 $ and it costs 35 $ a month for unlimited data/text and 400 minutes, I only use it for data/text and emergency calls. The 2 reasons I bought this is an app called backcountry navigator, it does offline satellite and topo map navigation and breadcrumbs with a nice interface, better than my garmin's I have. 2nd reason my at&t phones have 1 bar at work, but data really does not work at all in the new building, I cant stand not having something to fill my idle time. Best of all is the price, 35 $ a month if you use your phone like a small computer, like I do, I rarely talk on the phone I text everything.
The triumph runs stock android no nothing 2.2, best part NO MOTOBLUR!!!, same internals as a thunderbolt/droid2/revo but it has less ram, 512 vs 768. It's pretty fast, not as smooth as an iphone, but none of the androids are yet, it has a 4.1" 800x400 screen 1ghz cpu, a Adreno 205 GPU
data is cdma 2g/3g and I get 1 bar at work, but data works much better, the sprint signals use a lower frequency so it goes through objects like new brick buildings better.
liking the phone a lot so far, for those that tweak, there's overclock roms out now, to 1.9ghz, cyanogenmod is booted and motorola just released the source code, so the radio and hardware should all be working in another week or two
there's the normal android bugs, it's not as smooth as ios, gotta use a app killer or it slows down, it's frozen on me using a weather app, and there is a gps lock bug in the stock software that makes getting a lock very slow, "GPS Status" app fixes this, cyanogenmod should fix it fully
engadget's review of the phone http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/01/motorola-triumph-review/
The triumph runs stock android no nothing 2.2, best part NO MOTOBLUR!!!, same internals as a thunderbolt/droid2/revo but it has less ram, 512 vs 768. It's pretty fast, not as smooth as an iphone, but none of the androids are yet, it has a 4.1" 800x400 screen 1ghz cpu, a Adreno 205 GPU
data is cdma 2g/3g and I get 1 bar at work, but data works much better, the sprint signals use a lower frequency so it goes through objects like new brick buildings better.
liking the phone a lot so far, for those that tweak, there's overclock roms out now, to 1.9ghz, cyanogenmod is booted and motorola just released the source code, so the radio and hardware should all be working in another week or two
there's the normal android bugs, it's not as smooth as ios, gotta use a app killer or it slows down, it's frozen on me using a weather app, and there is a gps lock bug in the stock software that makes getting a lock very slow, "GPS Status" app fixes this, cyanogenmod should fix it fully
engadget's review of the phone http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/01/motorola-triumph-review/